RIP Dave’s Redistricting App

[Kevinstat]

Being from a 2-CD state where redistricting hasn't been particularly partisan (it was a bit more so and threatened to be a lot more so in 2011), I've never really cared that much about PVIs.  For me, a bigger problem was with some of the building blocks.  Maine has had fairly useless census-designated "voting districts" in the past, and it looks like it will continue to in 10 of Maine's 16 counties (one voting district per county actually, which might actually be better than the convoluted "voting districts" of the past, and in the other 6 counties (York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Androscoggin, Kennebec and Waldo) they'll be really good (municipalities and wards for cities with multiple wards with separate polling places), but the other 10 counties having no smaller building blocks will likely drive people here nuts).

Block Groups which has also been an option on the app (although that may be without the PVI data) have been better in Maine, but you still have multiple small towns in one block group or the odd case of Lovell and Sweden in Oxford County with two block groups in those two towns, one consisting of about half of Lovell and the other consisting of the other half of Lovell and all of Sweden.